Mageia: 2020-0094 Moderate: systemd Denial Of Service Vulnerability
mageia
February 21, 2020
Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain udevadm trigger commands
Summary
Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerabilities:
It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain udevadm trigger
commands. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause systemd
to consume resources, leading to a denial of service (CVE-2019-20386).
Tavis Ormandy discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain Polkit
queries. A local attacker could use this issue to cause systemd to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code and
escalate privileges (CVE-2020-1712).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25964
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4269-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20386
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1712
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/systemd-241-8.5.mga7
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Publication date: 21 Feb 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0094.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-20386,
CVE-2020-1712
Topics Covered
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